On The Deadline [Business Report & Journal]

Kevin Lee Elder recently reviewed the "novel" approach to
project management that Tom DeMarco takes in his book
THE DEADLINE:

". . . if you need to learn the basic principles of project
management, what better way than reading a novel with
spies, dictators and foreign intrigue? The reader will be in
for a different experience from other business and
management books. . . .

"Where do you find the expertise to manage projects and
what expertise do you need? Can you really run a company
as a tyrant telling your employees they will literally lose their
heads for failing? What can 200 CMM-2 certified software
engineers do in the face of a seemingly impossible deadline?
Read The Deadline and find out. This is a fun read for
anyone involved in software development projects."

Read the full review in The Business Report & Journal:
http://cit.georgiasouthern.edu/is/biz_pdfs/elder_jun2007.pdf

Read Tom DeMarco's Dorset House title THE DEADLINE:
http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/dl.html

Experiential Learning: AYE Conference [Braidy Tester]

We had a blast in November at the Amplifying Your
Effectiveness Conference, held annually in Phoenix. Four
Dorset House authors were among the presenters: Naomi
Karten, Dwayne Phillips, Johanna Rothman, and Jerry
Weinberg. Michael Hunter recently blogged about his
experiences at AYE:

"AYE is not your typical sit-in-dark-hotel-rooms-listening-to-
droning-speakers-read-their-slides. . . . I've been wanting to
attend AYE for several years, for many reasons, including:

"Jerry Weinberg is one of the founders (and, I daresay, the
godfather) of the conference, and I am a self-confessed
Weinborg. The teachers are all people whom I have come
to hold in high regard. There were only a few sessions over
the entire conference which did not interest me, and at least
two sessions in each timeslot which did. . . . I knew that many
of the sessions would be experiential, and (as I've already
mentioned) that slide-driven presentations are not allowed.
I expected that the differences from other conferences
would not stop there. (Nor did they.)"

Read the full blog post on The Braidy Tester:
http://blogs.msdn.com/micahel/archive/2007/11/19/AyeAye.aspx

Read the book behind the conference, Amplifying Your Effectiveness:
http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/aye.html